EP1397682B1 - Determination of level of immunoglobulin modification - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method for determining the level of immunoglobulin modification in a sample from an individual as a marker for inflammation and in particular atherosclerosis in the individual.
- Atherosclerosis is a disease which results in narrowed arteries and decreased blood flow.
- the arteries become narrowed because of a build up of plaques in their inner walls. Plaques consist of a mixture of substances including cholesterol, fat, fibrous tissue, clumps of platelets and sometimes calcium.
- Atherosclerosis begins early in life, but generally causes no symptoms until middle or old age. This is because it takes many years for plaques to develop and because normal arteries are much larger than they need to be. Only after an artery becomes very narrowed will blood flow be diminished enough to cause symptoms. When atherosclerosis affects arteries supplying blood to the heart, patients experience angina and claudication.
- Hyperlipidaemia is a risk factor of atherosclerosis. In general, individuals with an increased level of cholesterol are prone to develop or have already developed atherosclerosis. However, although some individuals may not have an increased level of cholesterol, it does not necessarily mean that they do not suffer from atherosclerosis. Hyperlipidaemia has little diagnostic value in cardiovascular pathology since only 10-20% of the total patients with clinical complications of atherosclerosis demonstrate an elevated level of cholesterol in their plasma.
- the present invention provides a method for determining the risk of an individual of suffering from inflammation, opportunistic infection or disruption of immunoglobulin metabolism, comprising
- the method can therefore be used in particular to assess the immune competence of the individual and provide a useful marker of the risk of the individual suffering opportunistic infection, for example, during the course of other treatments or surgical procedures.
- the method is used to determine the risk of opportunistic infection in a patient suffering from atherosclerosis.
- the present invention provides a marker to assess immune competence of an individual. It can be used in particular to assess levels of inflammation or the susceptibility of an individual to suffer from opportunistic infection.
- the method may be used to assess the immune competence of an individual suffering from atherosclerosis and assist in evaluating chronic inflammation in the individual.
- the level of disruption of the Fc region of immunoglobulins in a sample taken from the individual is determined.
- This disruption may be structural, for example the immunoglobulins have become fragmented, and in particular the Fc region or part of the Fc region of the immunoglobulin may have become detached from the remainder of the immunoglobulin molecule.
- the disruption may be functional, that is to say that the Fc region is no longer capable of being recognised, for example by no longer binding to protein A.
- the method of the present invention relates in particular to a method of determining disruption of the Fc region of immunoglobulin G in a sample taken from a patient.
- a sample is first taken from an individual.
- the sample may comprise a blood sample. Analysis may be carried out either on plasma or serum.
- the sample under investigation may comprise a biopsy, for example, of the arterial wall of an individual.
- the level of disruption of immunoglobulins in the sample is determined. Quantification of the level of disruption may be measured by any suitable method. In particular the method may be used to measure the level of fragmentation of immunoglobulin, for example by measuring the levels of Fc and Fab in the sample. In the alternative, the disruption of immunoglobulins may be determined by measuring the disruption to Fc function for example through loss of binding to protein A or other proteins such as antibodies directed against the Fc portion of immunoglobulin. In a preferred aspect, the levels of fragmented Fab and Fc associated with the sample are measured.
- the sample may be contacted with an antibody sorbent.
- the antibody sorbent may be used to remove intact immunoglobulin from the sample, with the unbound fraction being used to monitor for fragmentation or disruption of immunoglobulins.
- the nature of the immunoglobulin bound to the antibody sorbent may be determined.
- protein A binds to immunoglobulin G via the Fc region.
- protein A will bind whole IgG and fragments of Fc.
- the ratio of Fc to Fab bound to protein A provides an indication of fragmentation.
- Protein L binds to immunoglobulins via the k-light chain. Thus whole immunoglobulins and Fab fragments, or whole immunoglobulin with disrupted Fc function will bind to protein L.
- any suitable antibody sorbent may be used.
- suitable antibody sorbent examples include protein A, protein L and protein G or other proteins that bind to immunoglobulins such as peptides that bind to Ig such as kaptiv M and kaptiv GY from Tecnogen, Italy or other affinity proteins such as Arp or protein H.
- the antibody sorbent for use in connection with the invention binds to immunoglobulin G.
- an immunoglobulin G binding domain of protein A is used as the antibody sorbent.
- Protein A has been well characterised and binds to the Fc portion of IgG.
- protein A may comprise whole protein A isolated from Staphylococcus.
- protein A may comprise recombinant protein A.
- Fragments of protein A may also be provided, such fragments incorporating at least an IgG binding domain of protein A. Such fragments may comprise homologues or variants of protein A or may form hybrid proteins with other proteins, either as carriers or with other immunoglobulin binding proteins.
- protein L could be used as the antibody sorbent. Protein L has been well characterised and has been demonstrated to bind to the ⁇ -light chains of immunoglobulins of variety of different classes. Thus, protein L will bind to Fab fragments of immunoglobulins.
- the level of fragmentation or disruption of Fc function can be determined in a number of different ways. For example, using antibodies directed against the Fc portion and Fab portion, the levels of Fc and Fab in the sample may be determined or the levels of normal Fab compared to Fc which are no longer functional.
- the level of Fab provides an indication of whole, that is unfragmented immunoglobulin.
- the level of Fc provides an indication of whole, immunoglobulin plus fragmented Fc.
- the excess Fc above that expected for whole immunoglobulin based on the Fab content provides an indication of the degree of fragmentation of Fc.
- the levels of Fab and Fc on the protein L column may be used.
- the Fc level provides an indication of whole immunoglobulin content.
- the level of Fab in excess of that expected based on the Fc/whole immunoglobulin level provides an indication of the level of fragmentation.
- the sample is first passed over an antibody sorbent Subsequently, the sample is contacted with a second antibody sorbent.
- a second antibody sorbent In this way, intact immunoglobulin molecules will be largely removed in the first step of the method, facilitating determination of the levels of modified immunoglobulins.
- any immuno absorbent mentioned above may be used in the first step and subsequently the unbound fraction from that step is applied to, for example a protein L column or protein A column respectively.
- the levels of Fab and Fc bound to the second sorbent may be measured in the same way as described above.
- the antibody sorbent can be attached to a solid phase.
- the sample taken from a patient can be contacted with this antibody sorbent.
- the antibody sorbent is provided bound to beads, and in particular to agarose beads.
- the antibody sorbent may be bound to the solid support, such as beads using any suitable method.
- the protein bound to the solid support may be provided as fusion proteins with other proteins either to assist in attachment to the solid support or to provide other functional characteristics which might be desired.
- the antibody sorbent may be derivatised to assist in its attachment to the solid support such as beads.
- Linkers may be provided and standard coupling or conjugating techniques used.
- a sample taken from a patient is split into two portions. One portion is contacted with protein A. A second portion is contacted with protein L.
- a sample which has been pre-treated with protein A is incubated with protein L. The protein A sorbent removes whole immunoglobulin from the sample. Incubation of the unbound fraction with protein L absorbs fragmented Fab of immunoglobulin G for subsequent quantification.
- the antibody and fragments thereof bound to the sorbent may be collected by any suitable method.
- the sample may be incubated with beads to which the antibody sorbent is bound. These beads may be separated out from the remainder of the sample by centrifugation, filtration or other means such as application of a magnetic field when magnetic beads are used.
- the sample could be passed through a non-sticky filter which does not retain free lipoproteins/cholesterol in the sample but will retain the antibody-sorbent bound to beads.
- a magnetic field could be applied to draw magnetic beads with bound antibody or fragments thereof from the rest of the sample.
- the separation is carried out by centrifugation of the sample so that the supernatant comprising the unbound fraction of the sample can be collected.
- the beaded antibody-sorbent fraction could be collected from such centrifuged sample.
- the quantities of Fc and Fab absorbed in contact with the or each antibody sorbent such as protein A or protein L can then be determined using anti-Fc antibodies or anti-Fab antibodies.
- the bound fraction bound to a protein A or protein L sorbent could be contacted with a suitably labelled antibody to determine the ratio of Fc to Fab fragments in each bound sample.
- the antibodies can be suitably labelled, using different labels selected from radio labels, fluorescent labels or other labels such as reporter enzymes which can be used in colorimetric assays.
- both antibodies can be labelled with the same label and the assay carried out sequentially such that the level of Fc can be differentiated from the level of Fab fragments in the sample.
- the ratio of Fc fragments to Fab fragments provides an indication of the degree of disruption or fragmentation of immunoglobulins.
- the fragmentation provides an indication of the level of fragmentation of immunoglobulin G.
- the levels of modification or fragmentation can be compared with samples taken from healthy individuals or samples of individuals known to be suffering from inflammation and in particular from atherosclerosis to assess the risk of opportunistic infection in the individual concerned.
- the method provides an indication of disruption of immunoglobulin metabolism in an individual.
- the method of the invention may provide a marker of the level of autoimmune disease suffered by an individual.
- the levels of immunoglobulin could be used to monitor the effect of a particular treatment in the individual in reducing inflammation or the auto-immune response in the individual.
- rProtein L was from “ACTIgen”. All solutions were prepared in 0.05M phosphate buffer with 0.1mM diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), pH 7.4 unless otherwise stated. All measurements were performed in triplicate at least.
- DTPA diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid
- the second group of specimens together with samples of plasma, serum and in some cases biopsy of quadriceps femoris muscle were recovered from 11 patients (age range 53-64 years, 8 male, 3 female) during bypass surgery of the patients with an abdominal aorta stenosis at the Centre of Cardio-Vascular Surgery of the Clinical Hospital No.1 in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia. After recovery these samples were immediately put in 30% w/v solution of NaCl and stored at 0-4°C for 1-2 weeks prior to examination.
- aorta (approximately 200-400 mg wet weight) were immersed in phosphate-buffer saline (PBS) and scraped with a blunt glass rod about 8-10 times. After that no further protein could be detected in these extracts.
- PBS phosphate-buffer saline
- the remaining samples were cut into about ten to twenty pieces each, placed in 5.0ml of PBS and homogenised by a mechanical homogeniser (Ultra-Turrax) at full-power with a 15mm probe three times for 3 seconds each with 20 second cooling intervals.
- a mechanical homogeniser Ultra-Turrax
- this procedure was performed with different concentrations of two non-ionic detergents, Triton X-100 and Igepal CA-630. After homogenisation the insoluble components were separated by centrifugation at 5000g for 10 minutes and supernatants were used for analysis.
- Immunoglobulin / immune complex extraction The first step was the treatment of the analysed samples with protein A attached to cross-linked 4% beaded agarose at 37°C for 30 minutes. After that immunoglobulins and/or immune complexes which had bound via this protein to the beads were spun down at 5000 g for 10 minutes. Supernatants were removed for the further tests. Sediments were re-suspended in PBS and these samples were centrifuged under the same regime. This washing procedure was repeated three times.
- Immunoglobulin content and quantification Since neither protein A nor rProtein L reagents affect alkaline phosphatase, APase, reaction themselves (data not shown), it was possible to use APase antibody conjugates for immuno-enzyme assays to measure the concentration of immunoglobulins attached to the protein A/L agarose beads. To determine IgG, IgA and IgM anti-human affinity isolated goat antibody APase-conjugates were applied. To determine subclasses of IgG mouse monoclonal appropriate antibodies (IgG class) were firstly used with the consequent application in the second stage of anti-mouse goat antibody APase-conjugates.
- the monoclonal anti-human IgG1 was derived from clone SG-16 mouse ascites fluid, anti-human IgG2 from clone HP-6014, anti-human IgG3 from clone HP-6047, anti-human IgG4 from SK-44.
- the titre of the working solutions for mouse antibodies against IgG1 was 1:2,000, against IgG2 and IgG4 was 1:1,000 and against IgG3 was 1:500. All these antibodies belonged to the mouse IgG1 isotype.
- the goat conjugates used were pre-absorbed with bovine and human proteins and used in the titre of 1:10,000.
- Immunoglobulin / immune complexes elution from protein A / L reagents.
- Immunoglobulins (free or in a form of immune complexes) attached to either protein A or rProtein L were delipidated by 5% of Igepal CA-630. After 5 times washing in PBS and centrifuging at 5,000g for 10 minutes these samples were re-suspended and incubated in 0.01M acetate buffer pH 2.5 for 30 minutes. Apparently this procedure affects neither covalently bound protein A nor rProtein L to agarose. After a further centrifugation under the same regime, supernatants containing immunoglobulins and, perhaps, their antigens were collected and pH was restored to 7.4.
- Protein concentrations Protein concentrations . Protein concentration of the extracts was determined by Peterson's modification of the micro-Lowry method, which utilises sodium dodecylsulfate to facilitate the dissolution of relatively insoluble lipoproteins. Bovine serum albumin was used for the calibration curve.
- Example 1 Immunoglobulin composition of the LAM extracted from atherosclerotic lesion .
- the immunoglobulin profile of the material extracted by both protein A and subsequently by protein L reagents from the surface of the advanced lesion and from the homogenate of its core is presented in Table 1. According to this the main immunoglobulin class in these extracts is IgG. Most surprising was the finding of this protein in the material which had been preliminarily exhausted by an excessive amount of protein A. 46% of the total fraction of IgG in PBS extract and 32% in Triton X-100 homogenate were unable to interact with protein A but not protein L.
- Samples take from Patient No.4 Intensity of the presence of immunoglobulins in E ⁇ 400nm ⁇ 10 3 measured by using goat antibodies against * : IgG IgA IgM Fab-fragments Fc-fragments Protein A extraction: of 1 ⁇ g human IgG ** 424 317 n/d n/d of 3 ⁇ g human IgG ** 1211 1009 n/d n/d 10 ⁇ g protein of PBS extract, Treated by Protein A *** 890 296 185 256 and subsequently by protein L *** 742 262 324 411 10 ⁇ g protein of 1% Triton X-100 homogenate, treated by protein A *** and subsequently 622 103 122 11 by protein L *** 318 19 157 0
- the change in the balance between Fab and Fc portions in the analysed lesion extracts could be explained by the presence of the fragments of IgG therein.
- the Fab/Fc ratio, under experimental conditions and with the particular reagents used, for the commercial standard of human IgG was 1.27 ⁇ 0.22.
- a level of the absorption of Fc portion in an analysed sample was multiplied by this coefficient. If it is assumed that IgG fragmentation occurs as a simple cut in the hinge region without any further modification of polypeptide chains of IgG affecting their antigenic properties, the obtained figure would reflect the amount of Fab for the uncleaved IgG.
- the ratio between the excessive amount of Fab and its total content was used as a measure of the immunoglobulin fragmentation.
- the amount of protein extracted from sera of the patients by protein A was 14.8 ⁇ 1.93 mg/ml against 24.5 ⁇ 1.08 mg/ml (p ⁇ 0.001) in the control group. This may indicate either a reduced level of IgG production and/or 'impairment' of the Fc-portion of these molecules which led to the reduction of their ability to interact with protein A.
- Example 4 Nosocomial (hospital acquired) pneumonia.
- the amount of protein extracted from the sera of patients by protein A was 14.8 ⁇ 1.93 mg/ml against 24.5 ⁇ 1.08 mg/ml (p ⁇ 0.001) in the control group'.
- 60% of IgG was capable of being bound with protein A in the plasma of patients against 100% in the control.
- trypsin can digest immunoglobulins and IgG in particular, splitting the latter into Fc and bivalent Fab portions. We have found that during this process only Fc but not Fab parts of IgG were affected. Under the conditions used, trypsin reduced binding by Fc to protein G by 50%, and damaged part(s) responsible for the binding of protein A in 2 out of 3 molecules of IgG (table 7). This indicates that the protein A binding site is more susceptible to trypsin digestion than the protein G binding site.
- Sorbent used Human IgG attached to the sorbent in ⁇ g/ml initial solution contained 1,000 ⁇ g/ml of IgG (100%) + trypsin - trypsin Protein A 135 ⁇ 19.8 (13.5%) 442 ⁇ 22.1 (44.2%) Protein L (added to the IgG Solution which was Preliminarily exhausted by Protein A) 219 ⁇ 16.6 (21.9%) 200 ⁇ 10.3 (20.0%) Total amount of IgG bound by this procedure 354 (35.4%) 642 (64.2%) Protein G 240 ⁇ 1.04 (24.0%) 555 ⁇ 3.46 (55.5%) Complex of A/L proteins 304 ⁇ 0.67 (30.4%) 502 ⁇ 1.11 (50.2%)
- Example 7 In vivo comparison of IgG fragmentation and trypsin activity
- Tested group Fc parts of human IgG attached to protein L, in ⁇ g Trypsin activity, in BAEE* units per mg of protein Control Patients M 9.52 1.98 1 8.56 2.04 M3 9.20 0.94 3 4.55 3.00 K 7.86 2.69 4 6.62 3.10 K2 11.38 1.84 5 7.45 2.55 K3 7.95 2.47 6 0.21 2.74 K4 12.23 0.85 7 9.52 2.52 K5 8.77 1.94 8 0 3.15 K6 9.56 1.43 9 6.08 2.50 K7 7.89 2.38 10 3.31 3.75 K8 10.55 1.22 11 7.45 3.58 12 4.45 3.47 13 0 3.32 14 1.65 2.57 15 0 2.51 16 2.07 2.67 17 0.82 2.72 18 3.10 2.57 19 2.79 2.64 20 7.32 2.67 21 1.24 2.41 22 1.65 3.48 9.49 ⁇ 0.401 (n 10) 1.77 ⁇ 0.2
Abstract
Description
- The invention relates to a method for determining the level of immunoglobulin modification in a sample from an individual as a marker for inflammation and in particular atherosclerosis in the individual.
- Atherosclerosis is a disease which results in narrowed arteries and decreased blood flow. The arteries become narrowed because of a build up of plaques in their inner walls. Plaques consist of a mixture of substances including cholesterol, fat, fibrous tissue, clumps of platelets and sometimes calcium.
- Atherosclerosis begins early in life, but generally causes no symptoms until middle or old age. This is because it takes many years for plaques to develop and because normal arteries are much larger than they need to be. Only after an artery becomes very narrowed will blood flow be diminished enough to cause symptoms. When atherosclerosis affects arteries supplying blood to the heart, patients experience angina and claudication.
- Hyperlipidaemia is a risk factor of atherosclerosis. In general, individuals with an increased level of cholesterol are prone to develop or have already developed atherosclerosis. However, although some individuals may not have an increased level of cholesterol, it does not necessarily mean that they do not suffer from atherosclerosis. Hyperlipidaemia has little diagnostic value in cardiovascular pathology since only 10-20% of the total patients with clinical complications of atherosclerosis demonstrate an elevated level of cholesterol in their plasma.
- We have now determined that modification of immunoglobulins and in particular impairment of Fc function or fragmentation of immunoglobulins can be used as a marker to demonstrate the susceptibility of an individual to suffer from inflammation or an infection.
- Thus, the present invention provides a method for determining the risk of an individual of suffering from inflammation, opportunistic infection or disruption of immunoglobulin metabolism, comprising
- (a) determining the level of fragmentation or modification of Fc function of immunoglobulins in a blood sample taken from the individual and
- (b) determining thereby the risk of inflammation, impaired immune response or opportunistic infection, wherein an increased level of fragmentation or modification is associated with an increased risk.
- The method can therefore be used in particular to assess the immune competence of the individual and provide a useful marker of the risk of the individual suffering opportunistic infection, for example, during the course of other treatments or surgical procedures. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the method is used to determine the risk of opportunistic infection in a patient suffering from atherosclerosis.
- We have now shown that the level of trypsin activity is elevated in patients suffering from atherosclerosis. We have also found a correlation between increased trypsin activity and the level of IgG fragmentation or damage in atherosclerosis patients' serum samples. This indicates that increased trypsin activity is one of the factors responsible for an increase in the damage to IgG in patients with clinical complications of atherosclerosis. In particular trypsin, appears to be one of the main factors that causes IgG damage in cardio-vascular surgery.
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Figure 1 shows the correlation between the level of trypsin activity and the level of IgG fragmentation in human serum from the Russian study (casewise MD deletion, r = 0.6384). -
Figure 2 shows a comparison of the level of damaged or fragmented IgG between patient and control groups in the Norwegian study. This parameter is expressed as the amount of protein L bound-IgG with an undetectable Fc portion, calculated as a difference in the concentration between Fab and Fc fragments associated with the sorbent. Undamaged IgG was removed by a saturating amount of protein A. -
Figure 3 shows a comparison of the trypsin activity of the serum samples from the patient and control groups of the Norwegian study. -
Figure 4 shows the correlation between the level of trypsin activity and the level of protein L bound-IgG with undetectable Fc portion (casewise MD deletion, r=0.56379). - The present invention provides a marker to assess immune competence of an individual. It can be used in particular to assess levels of inflammation or the susceptibility of an individual to suffer from opportunistic infection. In particular the method may be used to assess the immune competence of an individual suffering from atherosclerosis and assist in evaluating chronic inflammation in the individual.
- In accordance with the method of the present invention, the level of disruption of the Fc region of immunoglobulins in a sample taken from the individual is determined. This disruption may be structural, for example the immunoglobulins have become fragmented, and in particular the Fc region or part of the Fc region of the immunoglobulin may have become detached from the remainder of the immunoglobulin molecule. Alternatively, the disruption may be functional, that is to say that the Fc region is no longer capable of being recognised, for example by no longer binding to protein A. The method of the present invention relates in particular to a method of determining disruption of the Fc region of immunoglobulin G in a sample taken from a patient.
- In accordance with the present invention, a sample is first taken from an individual. The sample may comprise a blood sample. Analysis may be carried out either on plasma or serum. Alternatively, the sample under investigation may comprise a biopsy, for example, of the arterial wall of an individual.
- In accordance with the present invention, the level of disruption of immunoglobulins in the sample is determined. Quantification of the level of disruption may be measured by any suitable method. In particular the method may be used to measure the level of fragmentation of immunoglobulin, for example by measuring the levels of Fc and Fab in the sample. In the alternative, the disruption of immunoglobulins may be determined by measuring the disruption to Fc function for example through loss of binding to protein A or other proteins such as antibodies directed against the Fc portion of immunoglobulin. In a preferred aspect, the levels of fragmented Fab and Fc associated with the sample are measured.
- In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the sample may be contacted with an antibody sorbent. The antibody sorbent may be used to remove intact immunoglobulin from the sample, with the unbound fraction being used to monitor for fragmentation or disruption of immunoglobulins. Alternatively the nature of the immunoglobulin bound to the antibody sorbent may be determined. For example, protein A binds to immunoglobulin G via the Fc region. Thus protein A will bind whole IgG and fragments of Fc. The ratio of Fc to Fab bound to protein A provides an indication of fragmentation. Protein L binds to immunoglobulins via the k-light chain. Thus whole immunoglobulins and Fab fragments, or whole immunoglobulin with disrupted Fc function will bind to protein L.
- Any suitable antibody sorbent may be used. Examples include protein A, protein L and protein G or other proteins that bind to immunoglobulins such as peptides that bind to Ig such as kaptiv M and kaptiv GY from Tecnogen, Italy or other affinity proteins such as Arp or protein H. In a preferred aspect, the antibody sorbent for use in connection with the invention binds to immunoglobulin G. In a particularly preferred embodiment, an immunoglobulin G binding domain of protein A is used as the antibody sorbent. Protein A has been well characterised and binds to the Fc portion of IgG. In accordance with the present invention, protein A may comprise whole protein A isolated from Staphylococcus. Alternatively, protein A may comprise recombinant protein A. Fragments of protein A may also be provided, such fragments incorporating at least an IgG binding domain of protein A. Such fragments may comprise homologues or variants of protein A or may form hybrid proteins with other proteins, either as carriers or with other immunoglobulin binding proteins. Alternatively, protein L could be used as the antibody sorbent. Protein L has been well characterised and has been demonstrated to bind to the κ-light chains of immunoglobulins of variety of different classes. Thus, protein L will bind to Fab fragments of immunoglobulins.
- The level of fragmentation or disruption of Fc function can be determined in a number of different ways. For example, using antibodies directed against the Fc portion and Fab portion, the levels of Fc and Fab in the sample may be determined or the levels of normal Fab compared to Fc which are no longer functional. For a protein A sorbent, the level of Fab provides an indication of whole, that is unfragmented immunoglobulin. The level of Fc provides an indication of whole, immunoglobulin plus fragmented Fc. The excess Fc above that expected for whole immunoglobulin based on the Fab content, provides an indication of the degree of fragmentation of Fc. In another aspect of the invention, the levels of Fab and Fc on the protein L column may be used. The Fc level provides an indication of whole immunoglobulin content. The level of Fab in excess of that expected based on the Fc/whole immunoglobulin level provides an indication of the level of fragmentation.
- In a preferred aspect of the invention, the sample is first passed over an antibody sorbent Subsequently, the sample is contacted with a second antibody sorbent. In this way, intact immunoglobulin molecules will be largely removed in the first step of the method, facilitating determination of the levels of modified immunoglobulins. For example, any immuno absorbent mentioned above may be used in the first step and subsequently the unbound fraction from that step is applied to, for example a protein L column or protein A column respectively. The levels of Fab and Fc bound to the second sorbent may be measured in the same way as described above.
- The antibody sorbent can be attached to a solid phase. The sample taken from a patient can be contacted with this antibody sorbent. In a particularly preferred aspect of the invention, the antibody sorbent is provided bound to beads, and in particular to agarose beads.
- The antibody sorbent may be bound to the solid support, such as beads using any suitable method. The protein bound to the solid support may be provided as fusion proteins with other proteins either to assist in attachment to the solid support or to provide other functional characteristics which might be desired. The antibody sorbent may be derivatised to assist in its attachment to the solid support such as beads. Linkers may be provided and standard coupling or conjugating techniques used.
- In a preferred example of the present invention, a sample taken from a patient is split into two portions. One portion is contacted with protein A. A second portion is contacted with protein L. Alternatively, a sample which has been pre-treated with protein A is incubated with protein L. The protein A sorbent removes whole immunoglobulin from the sample. Incubation of the unbound fraction with protein L absorbs fragmented Fab of immunoglobulin G for subsequent quantification.
- The antibody and fragments thereof bound to the sorbent may be collected by any suitable method. The sample may be incubated with beads to which the antibody sorbent is bound. These beads may be separated out from the remainder of the sample by centrifugation, filtration or other means such as application of a magnetic field when magnetic beads are used. For example, the sample could be passed through a non-sticky filter which does not retain free lipoproteins/cholesterol in the sample but will retain the antibody-sorbent bound to beads. Alternatively, a magnetic field could be applied to draw magnetic beads with bound antibody or fragments thereof from the rest of the sample.
- In a preferred aspect of the invention, the separation is carried out by centrifugation of the sample so that the supernatant comprising the unbound fraction of the sample can be collected. Alternatively, the beaded antibody-sorbent fraction could be collected from such centrifuged sample.
- The quantities of Fc and Fab absorbed in contact with the or each antibody sorbent such as protein A or protein L can then be determined using anti-Fc antibodies or anti-Fab antibodies. In particular, the bound fraction bound to a protein A or protein L sorbent could be contacted with a suitably labelled antibody to determine the ratio of Fc to Fab fragments in each bound sample. The antibodies can be suitably labelled, using different labels selected from radio labels, fluorescent labels or other labels such as reporter enzymes which can be used in colorimetric assays. Alternatively, both antibodies can be labelled with the same label and the assay carried out sequentially such that the level of Fc can be differentiated from the level of Fab fragments in the sample.
- The ratio of Fc fragments to Fab fragments provides an indication of the degree of disruption or fragmentation of immunoglobulins. Where protein A is used, the fragmentation provides an indication of the level of fragmentation of immunoglobulin G. The levels of modification or fragmentation can be compared with samples taken from healthy individuals or samples of individuals known to be suffering from inflammation and in particular from atherosclerosis to assess the risk of opportunistic infection in the individual concerned. In addition, the method provides an indication of disruption of immunoglobulin metabolism in an individual. Thus, the method of the invention may provide a marker of the level of autoimmune disease suffered by an individual. The levels of immunoglobulin could be used to monitor the effect of a particular treatment in the individual in reducing inflammation or the auto-immune response in the individual.
- Most of the chemicals were from "Sigma". rProtein L was from "ACTIgen". All solutions were prepared in 0.05M phosphate buffer with 0.1mM diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), pH 7.4 unless otherwise stated. All measurements were performed in triplicate at least.
- Human specimens. There were two groups of specimens of aorta from patients with clinical complications of atherosclerosis. The first was obtained from necropsy on 21 patients (age range 48-85 years, 16 male, 5 female) at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK. In some cases in this group, as in the following one, more than one lesion samples was taken from the same patient. The pieces of aorta were digested by collagenase.
- The second group of specimens together with samples of plasma, serum and in some cases biopsy of quadriceps femoris muscle were recovered from 11 patients (age range 53-64 years, 8 male, 3 female) during bypass surgery of the patients with an abdominal aorta stenosis at the Centre of Cardio-Vascular Surgery of the Clinical Hospital No.1 in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia. After recovery these samples were immediately put in 30% w/v solution of NaCl and stored at 0-4°C for 1-2 weeks prior to examination. In the control experiments it was shown that during this period the activities of such enzymes as trypsin, catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, together with a level of immunoglobulin (IgG) fragmentation and a degree of lipid peroxidation (concentration of malonaldehydes) did not significantly change (data not presented).
- The pieces of aorta (approximately 200-400 mg wet weight) were immersed in phosphate-buffer saline (PBS) and scraped with a blunt glass rod about 8-10 times. After that no further protein could be detected in these extracts. The remaining samples were cut into about ten to twenty pieces each, placed in 5.0ml of PBS and homogenised by a mechanical homogeniser (Ultra-Turrax) at full-power with a 15mm probe three times for 3 seconds each with 20 second cooling intervals. In order to determine the optimum condition for the extraction of immunoglobulins (Igs) this procedure was performed with different concentrations of two non-ionic detergents, Triton X-100 and Igepal CA-630. After homogenisation the insoluble components were separated by centrifugation at 5000g for 10 minutes and supernatants were used for analysis.
- Immunoglobulin/immune complex extraction. The first step was the treatment of the analysed samples with protein A attached to cross-linked 4% beaded agarose at 37°C for 30 minutes. After that immunoglobulins and/or immune complexes which had bound via this protein to the beads were spun down at 5000 g for 10 minutes. Supernatants were removed for the further tests. Sediments were re-suspended in PBS and these samples were centrifuged under the same regime. This washing procedure was repeated three times.
- In the second step the supernatants were treated with rProtein L attached to cross-linked 4% agarose under the same conditions as described for protein A. The different ratios between proteins A/L and analysed types of material were tested to find the optimal which gives the maximum yield of immunoglobulins (see results).
- In the control experiments, under the same conditions two 10% w/v suspensions of Staphylococcus aureus were used instead of protein A reagent; one the strains were Cowan strain bearing protein A, and Wood 46 strain not bearing protein A.
- Immunoglobulin content and quantification. Since neither protein A nor rProtein L reagents affect alkaline phosphatase, APase, reaction themselves (data not shown), it was possible to use APase antibody conjugates for immuno-enzyme assays to measure the concentration of immunoglobulins attached to the protein A/L agarose beads. To determine IgG, IgA and IgM anti-human affinity isolated goat antibody APase-conjugates were applied. To determine subclasses of IgG mouse monoclonal appropriate antibodies (IgG class) were firstly used with the consequent application in the second stage of anti-mouse goat antibody APase-conjugates. The monoclonal anti-human IgG1 was derived from clone SG-16 mouse ascites fluid, anti-human IgG2 from clone HP-6014, anti-human IgG3 from clone HP-6047, anti-human IgG4 from SK-44. The titre of the working solutions for mouse antibodies against IgG1 was 1:2,000, against IgG2 and IgG4 was 1:1,000 and against IgG3 was 1:500. All these antibodies belonged to the mouse IgG1 isotype. The goat conjugates used were pre-absorbed with bovine and human proteins and used in the titre of 1:10,000.
- To exclude the binding of these antibodies directly with protein A/L and binding of goat APase conjugates with protein A, all analysed samples were preliminarily incubated with bovine IgG in the ratio 2.5mg of the immunoglobulin per 0.1ml of the sorbent. The APase conjugates had no cross-reactivity with bovine IgG. Although the binding of these conjugates to rProtein L was much lower than to protein A, the level of this binding, either in direct or non-direct method, was always measured in control experiments and deducted when the level of immunoglobulins was calculated in the analysed samples.
- In order to determine the quantity of immunoglobulins attached to the sorbent the titration of commercial human IgG, IgA and IgM with protein A and rProtein L was performed under the same conditions as for the tested specimens.
- Each stage of incubation of the protein A/L extracts with the appropriate antibodies lasted 30 minutes at 37°C, accompanied by repeating three times the centrifugation of the samples at 5,000g for 10 minutes and their re-suspension in PBS. To determine the amount of APase conjugate attached to the sorbent p-Nitrophenyl Phosphate (pNPP), as a substrate for alkaline phosphatase, was used. This substrate was added directly to the beaded conjugate, mixed well and incubated at ambient temperature for 60 minutes. After that all samples were centrifuged for 10 minutes at 5,000g, supernatants were collected and analysed at λ400nm. In some cases the analysed samples were further diluted in order to make the level of their absorption between 0.03 and 1.0 where it has a linear character.
- Immunoglobulin/immune complexes elution from protein A/L reagents.
- Immunoglobulins (free or in a form of immune complexes) attached to either protein A or rProtein L were delipidated by 5% of Igepal CA-630. After 5 times washing in PBS and centrifuging at 5,000g for 10 minutes these samples were re-suspended and incubated in 0.01M acetate buffer pH 2.5 for 30 minutes. Apparently this procedure affects neither covalently bound protein A nor rProtein L to agarose. After a further centrifugation under the same regime, supernatants containing immunoglobulins and, perhaps, their antigens were collected and pH was restored to 7.4.
- Protein concentrations. Protein concentration of the extracts was determined by Peterson's modification of the micro-Lowry method, which utilises sodium dodecylsulfate to facilitate the dissolution of relatively insoluble lipoproteins. Bovine serum albumin was used for the calibration curve.
- The immunoglobulin profile of the material extracted by both protein A and subsequently by protein L reagents from the surface of the advanced lesion and from the homogenate of its core is presented in Table 1. According to this the main immunoglobulin class in these extracts is IgG. Most surprising was the finding of this protein in the material which had been preliminarily exhausted by an excessive amount of protein A. 46% of the total fraction of IgG in PBS extract and 32% in Triton X-100 homogenate were unable to interact with protein A but not protein L.
- Table 1. Characterisation of immunoglobulins in advanced atherosclerotic plaque (patient No.4); n/d - not determined; * the dilutions of anti-IgG, -IgA, and - IgM conjugates were adjusted to equalise their differences in the absorption of 1 µg of the commercial samples of their antigens; ** commercial preparations; *** 50µl of protein A and protein L were used.
Samples take from Patient No.4 Intensity of the presence of immunoglobulins in Eλ400nm× 103 measured by using goat antibodies against*: IgG IgA IgM Fab-fragments Fc-fragments Protein A extraction: of 1µg human IgG** 424 317 n/d n/d of 3µg human IgG** 1211 1009 n/d n/d 10µg protein of PBS extract, Treated by Protein A*** 890 296 185 256 and subsequently by protein L*** 742 262 324 411 10µg protein of 1% Triton X-100 homogenate, treated by protein A*** and subsequently 622 103 122 11 by protein L*** 318 19 157 0 - A further indication of the potential damage of immnunoglobulins in these samples is derived from a comparison of the ratio between Fab and Fc portions of IgG. For the intact protein, under the conditions of the experiment and for the particular reagents used, this ratio was 55-57% for Fab and 43-45% for Fc. In PBS extracts the contribution of the latter portion was only 25-26% in the total mass of IgG which was equally presented on both protein A and protein L reagents. This imbalance was deeper developed in the homogenate of the lesion. Protein A extracted IgG which contained only 14% of Fc portions, but their level on the subsequently used protein L reagent was even lower, 5.6%.
- The comparison of the immunoglobulin profile of the lesion with such of the plasma from the same patient is given in the Table 2. The analysis of PBS extract detected the accumulation of IgM on the surface of the lesion in 2.3 times higher than the level of this protein in circulating plasma. The other interesting observation was the certain elevation of IgG1 fraction in this extract on the background of the significant reduction of subclasses of IgG. Furthermore, this elevation in the lesion homogenate was even higher and the concentration of IgG1 was 1.6 higher than in the plasma. At the same time the presence there of other subclasses of IgG together with the second major immunoglobulin of PBS extract, IgM, was almost at trace level or undetectable.
- Table 2. Content of immunoglobulins and their composition in the plasma and aorta wall of patient No.4.
Immunoglobulins Samples, 10µg of protein from: Plasma Surface of the advanced atherosclerotic lesion (PBS extract) Advanced atherosclerotic lesion itself (1% Triton X-100 homogenate) Content, µg 2.35 (100%) 4.68 (100%) 1.83 (100%) Profile, µg IgG (total) 1.72 (73.3%) 3.09 (66.0%) 1.44 (78.7%) IgG1 1.13 (48.1%) 2.56 (54.7%) 1.41 (77.0%) IgG2 0.377 (16.0%) 0.411 (8.8%) 0.033 (1.8%) IgG3 0.126 (5.4%) 0.049 (1.0%) 0 IgG4 0.063 (2.7%) 0.065 (1.4%) 0 IgA 0.430 (18.3%) 0.688 (14.7%) 0.377 (20.6%) IgM 0.195 (8.3%) 0.901 (19.3%) 0.0149 (0.8%) - Molecules of IgG interact with protein A via their Fc portion. Therefore the presence of the fraction of IgG which was not involved in this interaction could be considered 'disabled'. The ratio between IgG attached to the protein L reagent and the total amount of this protein bound by both the protein A and protein L reagents was used as a measure of the degree of this 'disability'. Following this, the damaged IgG was on the surface of the lesion 12.9 and inside the lesion 9.4 times higher than for the protein circulating in the plasma (Table 3).
- Table 3. Distribution of 'disabled' IgGs which were unable to interact with protein A, and the degree of IgG fragmentation in human atherosclerosis; n/d - not determined; the principles of the calculation of both parameters are given in the text.
Entity 'Disabled' Fc-IgG Fragmented IgG on protein A reagent on protein L reagent Plasma 81/2355 = 3.4% 2.8% n/d Surface of atherosclerotic advanced lesion (PBS extract) 1004/2290 = 44% 58% 55% Core of atherosclerotic advanced lesion (1% Triton X-100 extract) 337/1062 = 32% 79% 92% - The change in the balance between Fab and Fc portions in the analysed lesion extracts could be explained by the presence of the fragments of IgG therein. The Fab/Fc ratio, under experimental conditions and with the particular reagents used, for the commercial standard of human IgG was 1.27±0.22. A level of the absorption of Fc portion in an analysed sample was multiplied by this coefficient. If it is assumed that IgG fragmentation occurs as a simple cut in the hinge region without any further modification of polypeptide chains of IgG affecting their antigenic properties, the obtained figure would reflect the amount of Fab for the uncleaved IgG. The ratio between the excessive amount of Fab and its total content was used as a measure of the immunoglobulin fragmentation. If in the plasma only 1 out of 36 molecules of IgG was fragmented, on the surface of the atherosclerotic lesion this type of damage affected every other of these molecules. In the core of this
lesion 8 or 9 out of 10 of IgG were fragmented (Table 3). Protein L reacts only with κ chain of VL domain of Fab but not with λ chain which might be present in half of the human IgG. Thus the sorbent based on this protein L could not guarantee full absorption of all the damaged IgG or their fragments. Consequently the real degree of the degradation of these immunoglobulins in the analysed lesion samples was probably even higher. - The relative excess of Fab but not Fc fragments of IgG in the protein A extracts has required some explanation. It is known that protein A interacts with Fc portion of all subclasses of IgG and with VHIII domain of their Fab portion. Thus the excessive accumulation of the latter portion of IgG on the protein A reagent could belong to the fragments containing this particular domain. Alternatively, the same immune complex, which has been extracted (ALICs, for example), could contain more than one antibody. One of them was able to interact with protein A, another (others) could be just be a Fab fragment(s) attached to the same antigen. The other possibility, Fab fragments of IgG could be a part of the antigens or antigens themselves (the result of the cleavage of other IgG) and, therefore, would be present in 'an excessive' quantities in the protein A extract.
- The occurring Fc portions of the fragmenting IgG would be effectively scavenged by the Fc-receptors of the variety of cells either in the circulation or in the lesion itself. This would lead to the apparent dominant accumulation of Fab fragments, and that was observed in the analysed samples.
- The amount of protein extracted from sera of the patients by protein A (IgG associated material) was 14.8 ± 1.93 mg/ml against 24.5 ± 1.08 mg/ml (p<0.001) in the control group. This may indicate either a reduced level of IgG production and/or 'impairment' of the Fc-portion of these molecules which led to the reduction of their ability to interact with protein A.
- The latter suggestion was confirmed by the dominant presence of Fab fragments relative to Fc ones in protein L extracts of the sera of the patient, which were preliminary exhausted by protein A (p<0.001). The Fab/Fc ratio in this group was 2,413±271/857+156 µg/ml = 2.82. Conversely, in the control group the level of Fab fragments was slightly below than Fc fragments (p>0.05) and was 1,579±188/1,862±259 µg/ml = 0.88.
- Individual analysis revealed that excess of Fab above Fc in protein L extracts is a quite consistent feature in patients' sera, being observed in 20 cases out of 21 or more than 95%. In the control group this phenomenon was observed only in 4 cases or in 19%.
- So far, based on this limited study and on these particular groups of people, it is possible to conclude that IgG fragmentation/impairments happens not only in an arterial wall in atherosclerosis but also in the blood stream. It seems that this phenomenon is a highly frequent feature in patients with clinical complications of atherosclerosis (at least much more common than hypocholesterolemia). This would suggest that the measurement of IgG attachment to protein A and/or Fab presence in protein L extracts could be new leading markers for this disease today.
Groups IgG extracted from serum by saturated amount of protein A, in µg/ml IgG fragments attached to protein L, in µg/ml Total cholesterol in µg/ml Fab Fc Patients: 1) Ki 14,512 1,521 864 1,063 2) Pi 17,788 968 899 1,402 3) Ci 13,384 1,348 0 1,723 4) Mi 12,150 864 1,797 2,293 5) Chs 23,264 3,906 1,796 1,686 6) Y 26,624 1,417 35 1,782 7) Ba 11,178 1,970 1,175 1,438 8) Yk 5,267 2,765 104 2,197 9) O 15,875 2,731 795 1,543 10) M 18,061 4,424 1,175 1,519 11) Sh 5,494 3,387 1,486 2,002 12) Pa 2,480 4,182 2,143 1,199 13) D 4,217 2,039 691 1,015 14) Ch 3,029 2,869 1,106 2,129 15) K 9,592 3,491 1,037 1,223 16) C 23,990 3,353 760 1,572 17) Z 22,030 2,422 759 1,754 18) G 18,061 1,624 830 1,551 19) B 20,306 2,108 1,797 1,693 20) A1 7,202 - - 1,750 21) A2 42,611 - - 1,601 22) 40i 19,201 1,694 0 1,286 23) 60a 18,605 1,555 0 2,122 Control: 1) 1 24,985 1,728 588 2,074 2) 2 23,700 1,175 1,123 2,182 3) 3 28,574 1,901 2,627 1,986 4) 4 23,426 1,313 1.901 2,002 5) 5 34,432 2,281 2,420 1,806 6) 6 22,331 1,797 2.418 2,038 7) 7 24,657 1,521 3,249 2,110 8) 8 22,256 2,419 2,834 1,902 9) 9 23,034 1,289 1,556 1,756 10) 10 27,219 1,994 2,788 1,638 11) 11 20,533 1,002 1,427 1,591 12) 12 31,178 2,211 2,903 1,704 13) 13 24,208 - - 1,337 14) 14 21,016 - - 1,932 15) 1a 36,032 657 2,627 1,359 16) 2a 23,500 3,422 3,249 1,607 17) 3a 14,975 2,039 1,659 1,714 18) 4a 26,166 1,694 2,143 1,510 19) 5a 28,361 35 0 1,516 20) 6a 30,591 3,214 1,037 1,475 21) 7a 24,499 728 2,558 1,480 22) 8a 40,702 0 0 1,592 23) 9a 54,210 724 0 2,030 - The frequency of nosocomial pneumonia in the developed world for patients in hospitals (not for the surgical operation) is 0.2-0.5%.
- Our survey of the three major hospitals in Russia (Rostov-na-Donu) found that the frequency of nosocomial pneumonia for patients with acute myocardial infarction was between 2.4% and 5.9% (table 5 below). The number of cases of this infection, for these hospitals, for the same period of time, for patients admitted with diseases other than cardiovascular pathology was 0.1-0.4%.
- This difference of 6-14 times demonstrates a higher susceptibility of patients, with such clinical complication of atherosclerosis as myocardial infarction, towards nosocomial pneumonia. One possible explanation of this is the observation of the fact that more than 1/3 of the immunoglobulins class G is damaged in the plasma of these patients. Hence it can lead to a significant reduction of the anti-bacterial defence of the body.
Hospitals Doctors who undertook the study Acute myocardial infarction Number of patients Cases of nosocomial pneumonia Clinical Regional No1 Alexey M. Petyaev 341 20 (5.9%) Urgent Medicine Avia V. Vasil'eva and Anatoliy A. Stadnikov 1,215 31 (2.6%) City Hospital No20 Alla A. Zubkova 328 8 (2.4%) - Table 5. Frequency of nosocomial pneumonia in patients with myocardial infarction admitted to hospitals in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia between September 1999 and September 2000.
- Referring to the data from the clinical trial: 'The amount of protein extracted from the sera of patients by protein A (IgG associated material) was 14.8 ± 1.93 mg/ml against 24.5 ± 1.08 mg/ml (p<0.001) in the control group'. In other words, 60% of IgG was capable of being bound with protein A in the plasma of patients against 100% in the control.
- The levels of post-operative infections in various surgery departments at the Rostov-na-Donu Clinical Hospital, Russia in 2000 were compared (see table 6). As artificial ventilation is a major factor in post-operative respiratory infections, only departments where artificial ventilation was used during all operations were chosen for the analysis. It was found that the level of infection amongst patients undergoing cardio-vascular surgery was about 2-3 times higher than for patients operated on for other pathological conditions. These results indicate that IgG impairment may be one of the factors responsible for the higher level of susceptibility of patients with cardio-vascular pathology to post-operative infections.
Department No. of patients Level of post-operative Infections Gynecology 1,784 1.01% (18 cases) Urology 1,052 0.95% (10 cases) Traumatology 1,810 0.16% (3 cases) Jaw-face surgery 825 1.21% (10 cases) Neurosurgery 654 1.53% (10 cases) Thoraco-abdominal 768 1.30% (14 cases) Cardio-vascular surgery (of atherosclerotic occlusive disease) 749 3.20% (24 cases) - Table 6. Frequency of post-operative infections in surgery departments of the Rostov-na-Donu Clinical Hospital, Russia in 2000.
- It is known from the literature that trypsin can digest immunoglobulins and IgG in particular, splitting the latter into Fc and bivalent Fab portions. We have found that during this process only Fc but not Fab parts of IgG were affected. Under the conditions used, trypsin reduced binding by Fc to protein G by 50%, and damaged part(s) responsible for the binding of protein A in 2 out of 3 molecules of IgG (table 7). This indicates that the protein A binding site is more susceptible to trypsin digestion than the protein G binding site.
- Using protein A to remove undamaged IgG from tested samples would therefore leave a higher level of damaged immunoglobulins in the remaining solution. As a result the subsequently used protein L sorbent would yield more Fc material. Hence, the use of protein A during the first stage of the test for the damaged IgG is preferable to the use of protein G.
Sorbent used Human IgG attached to the sorbent, in µg/ml initial solution contained 1,000µg/ml of IgG (100%) + trypsin - trypsin Protein A 135 ± 19.8 (13.5%) 442 ± 22.1 (44.2%) Protein L (added to the IgG Solution which was Preliminarily exhausted by Protein A) 219 ± 16.6 (21.9%) 200 ± 10.3 (20.0%) Total amount of IgG bound by this procedure 354 (35.4%) 642 (64.2%) Protein G 240 ± 1.04 (24.0%) 555 ± 3.46 (55.5%) Complex of A/L proteins 304 ± 0.67 (30.4%) 502 ± 1.11 (50.2%) - Table 7. Effect of trypsin on the ability of human IgG to interact with different immuno-sorbents.
- Two studies were carried out, in Russia and Norway respectively. In each study serum samples were taken from healthy volunteers and patients with atherosclerotic complications of atherosclerosis. The levels of IgG damage and trypsin activity were measured, to determine if there was any correlation.
- For the Russian study, since it was found that the Fab portion of IgG is not affected by trypsin, the main focus was on an estimation of the relative amount of Fc-IgG material in the tested sera (once they were exhausted by protein A treatment). Therefore all samples were equalised on Fab concentration. In the control group there was 18.7 ± 0.63 mg of Fab material per tested sample, and in the patient group there was 18.9 ± 0.31 mg. The results of the study are shown in table 8. It was found that the level of IgG fragmentation/damage was significantly higher in the patients' sera than in the control samples, as previously demonstrated. However, the patient's sera also had a 2-fold higher level of trypsin activity than the control samples. The results showed that there was a statistically significant direct correlation (p < 0.05) between IgG fragmentation and trypsin activity (
Figure 1 ). - In the Norwegian study, the level of IgG damage was measured in terms of amount of protein L bound-IgG with undetectable Fc fragments. The ages, trypsin activity and the level of IgG damage in the sera of the patient and control groups are presented in table 9. These comparisons show that the level of the damaged IgG attached to the protein L was more than 9-fold higher in the patient sera than in the healthy control, p < 0.001 (
Figure 2 ). This was accompanied by a 2-fold increase in the trypsin activity in the sera of the patients in comparison with the control (Figure 3 ). A correlation analysis showed that these two parameters have a significant positive correlation with each other, r = 0.5638 (Figure 4 ), which was slightly weaker than in the Russian study (r = 0.6384). - This correlation indicates that increased activity of trypsin can be considered as one of the factors responsible for the loss of the detectable Fc portion of IgG in atherosclerosis. In the Norwegian trial protein L bound damaged IgG was found in about 79% of the analysed patient samples and in 20% of the control samples. These results were close to the ones obtained on the Russian patients (table 10). These results demonstrate a significant diagnostic value of the measurement of the fragmented/damaged IgG bound to the protein L as a non-specific marker of chronic inflammatory conditions to which atherosclerosis belongs.
Tested group Fc parts of human IgG attached to protein L, in µg Trypsin Activity, in BAEE* units per mg of protein Tested group Fc parts of human IgG attached to protein L, in µg Trypsin activity, in BAEE* units per mg of protein Control Patients M 9.52 1.98 1 8.56 2.04 M3 9.20 0.94 3 4.55 3.00 K 7.86 2.69 4 6.62 3.10 K2 11.38 1.84 5 7.45 2.55 K3 7.95 2.47 6 0.21 2.74 K4 12.23 0.85 7 9.52 2.52 K5 8.77 1.94 8 0 3.15 K6 9.56 1.43 9 6.08 2.50 K7 7.89 2.38 10 3.31 3.75 K8 10.55 1.22 11 7.45 3.58 12 4.45 3.47 13 0 3.32 14 1.65 2.57 15 0 2.51 16 2.07 2.67 17 0.82 2.72 18 3.10 2.57 19 2.79 2.64 20 7.32 2.67 21 1.24 2.41 22 1.65 3.48 9.49 ± 0.401 (n = 10) 1.77 ± 0.223 (n = 10) 3.81 ± 0.691 (n = 22) p<0.001 3.44 ± 0.132 (n = 22) p<0.001 - Table 8. Russian study. Comparison of IgG fragmentation and trypsin activity in serum samples. * 1 BAEE unit equals changes of optical density at λ 253 nm 1 min with Nα-Benzoyl-L-Arginine as substrate at pH 7.4 at 37°C.
Serum from: Age Trypsin activity in BAEE units* per mg protein Protein L bound IgG with no Fc portion, in µg/ml Serum from: Age Trypsin activity in BAEE units* per mg protein Protein L bound IgG with no Fc portion, in µg/ml Control Patients 1. 40 2.01 12.2 1. 69 3.32 75.2 2. 38 1.89 0.2 2. 56 3.35 41.6 3. 43 2.17 4.8 3. 57 9.90 562 4. 48 0 0 4. 53 4.46 80.4 5. 46 1.49 9.7 5. 39 2.76 176 6. 50 1.46 47.0 6. 51 2.28 142 7. 54 0.95 16.7 7. 69 4.38 149 8. 41 2.71 42.3 8. 43 2.72 399 9. 50 4.11 39.0 9. 87 2.61 32.5 10. 47 1.15 0 10. 65 2.82 93.9 11. 42 1.30 74.2 11. 78 4.47 840 12. 65 1.49 18.4 12. 49 2.83 104 13. 50 1.49 35.9 13. 36 2.27 30.8 14. 41 0.57 0 14. 46 2.41 55.8 15. 39 0.88 0 15. 57 0.98 27.9 16. 77 4.67 108 17. 71 0.89 4.6 18. 71 1.51 0 19. 57 1.88 61.4 20. 89 2.47 34.2 21. 77 3.23 197 22. 75 0.76 0 23. 55 1.23 441 24. 64 3.03 712 25. 78 5.10 881 26. 64 4.71 212 27. 80 3.37 267 28. 73 5.55 376 29. 61 5.10 429 30. 68 5.21 82.6 31. 75 4.58 195 32. 88 3.45 142 33. 72 3.73 46.5 34. 67 2.72 61.0 1.61 ± 0.233 (n=15) 20.0 ± 6.16 (n = 15) 189 ± 37.4 (n = 34) p < 0.001 3.37 ± 0.255 (n = 34) p < 0.001 - Table 9. Norwegian study. Trypsin activity and IgG. impairment/ fragmentation in the sera of the patient and control groups. IgG standard = 40.1. * 1 BAEE unit equals changes of optical density at λ 253 nin 1 min with Nα-Benzoyl-L-Arginine as substrate at pH 7.4 at 37°C.
Country of the study Number of serum samples where protein L bound IgG was damaged Control Patients Norway 20% (3 out of 15) 79% (27 out of 34) Russia 19% (6 out of 31) 87% (39 out of 45) - Table 10. Comparison of results obtained in the two studies.
- Two groups of patients were tested, each comprising three 50-60 year old male patients selected from the patients in the Russian study described above. Before undergoing by-pass surgery, the average level of parameters such as binding of immunoglobulins to protein A, amount of Fc portions of IgG attached to protein L and trypsin activity in the sera of the patients in both groups were similar (see table 11). In one group each patient received intravenously 20,000U of Trasylol (™) (proprietary name for aprotinin) one to two hours before the beginning of cardio-vascular surgery. This drug is a worldwide accepted trypsin/kallikrein inhibitor and is used as one of the key components of acute pancreatitis therapy. One hour after the end of the operation the blood of these patients was taken and compared with the blood of the patients who had not received aprotinin. The results are presented in table 11.
- In the control group, the operation procedure reduced the level of immunoglobulins able to interact with protein A sorbent almost by half. There was a 10-fold increase in the activity of trypsin in the sera of these patients accompanied by significant IgG damage in terms of the amount of Fc attached to protein L. By contrast, the pre-operative injection of a trypsin inhibitor seems to have prevented these profound changes caused by the operation. This indicates that trypsin is one of the main factors that cause IgG damage in cardio-vascular surgery. It also indicates that trypsin inhibitors may be useful in preventing IgG damage, particularly during surgery.
Tested Group IgG attached to protein A, in mg/ml Fc parts of human IgG attached to protein L, in µg Trypsin activity, in BAEE units per mg of protein* before operation after operation before operation after operation before operation after operation Control Patient: 8 16.2 10.1 0 0 3.15 40.2 9 23.8 8.5 6.08 1.03 2.50 24.7 10 19.8 12.3 3.31 0.45 3.75 39.3 19.9±2.25 (n=3) 10.3±1.16 (n=3) p<0.02 3.13±1.8 (n=3) 0.49±0.31 (n=3) p>0.05 3.13±0.36 (n=3) 34.7±5.83 (n=3) p<0.01 + Trasylol Patient: 11 18.4 18.7 7.45 5.37 3.58 2.69 12 19.6 16.2 4.45 5.12 3.47 2.01 13 18.5 19.1 0 0 3.32 2.15 18.8±0.45 (n=3) 18.0±1.05 (n=3) p>0.05 3.96±2.3 (n=3) 3.49±2.03 (n=3) p>0.05 3.46±0.08 (n=3) 2.28±0.23 (n=3) p<0.01 - Table 11. Effect of Trasylol on IgG damage during cardio-vascular by-pass surgery. * 1 BAEE unit equals changes of optical density at λ 253 nm 1 min with Nα-Benzoyl-L-Arginine as substrate at pH 7.4 at 37°C.
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- A method for determining the risk of an individual of suffering from inflammation or opportunistic infection, comprising(a) determining the level of fragmentation of immunoglobulins, or modification of Fc function of immunoglobulins wherein the Fc region is no longer capable of being recognised, in a blood sample taken from the individual and(b) determining thereby the risk of inflammation, impaired immune response or opportunistic infection, wherein an increased level of fragmentation or modification is associated with an increased risk.
- A method according to claim 1 wherein step (a) comprises incubating the sample from the patient with an antibody sorbent and determining the levels of Fc and Fab portions of immunoglobulins bound to the sorbent
- A method according to claim 2 wherein the method comprise(i) incubating a sample with a first antibody sorbent(ii) incubating the unbound fraction obtained from step (i) with a second antibody sorbent(iii) determining the levels of Fc and Fab with the samples obtained from steps (i), (ii) or both.
- A method according to claim 2, wherein the sample is split into two portions and step (a) comprises incubating each portion with a different antibody sorbent and determining the levels of Fc and Fab associated with each bound sample.
- A method according to any one of claims 2, 3 or 4 wherein at least one antibody sorbent comprises protein A or an immunoglobulin binding domain thereof.
- A method according to any one of claims 2, 3 or 4 wherein at least one antibody sorbent comprises protein L or an immunoglobulin binding fragment thereof.
- A method according to claim 5 or claim 6 wherein the antibody sorbents are protein A or an immunoglobulin binding fragment thereof and protein L or an immunoglobulin binding fragment thereof.
- A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the levels of Fc and Fab in a sample are determined using anti-Fc and anti-Fab antibodies labelled with a detectable label.
- A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the level of fragmentation determined in accordance with the method, or the levels of Fc or Fab identified in accordance with the method are compared with levels determined from a sample obtained from a healthy individual.
- A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the immunoglobulin is IgG.
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